Fisherman's 111-Luck
Fire almost completely destroyed a nine-roomed house in Island Bay* Wellington, at 4 a.m. to-day., *George Baxter, a fisherman, who occupied the top portion, saved a few of his r ffects. He had been particularly unfortunate of late. Coming over from Picton recently he lost his young so.i. Within a short, time after that lie was laid up with pleurisy, and ho was one of the three men who nearly lost their lives when the launch Nwna went down near the Hoads a short time ago. The premises wore owned by Mrs. Baxter. The insurances Were: On the building, £I6OO in tlfo Commercial Union; contents, Baxter £l5O, Ronnthwaite (occupant of the Irwer portion) £125, in the State Office P.A,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16509, 29 November 1927, Page 8
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121Fisherman's Ill-Luck Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16509, 29 November 1927, Page 8
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